Technology
is a remarkable thing and when it comes to the advancements with in the
automotive industry one of the areas that you see the most continuous work
towards making real and substantial changes is lighting. Since the invention
of the automobile there have been people working to improve on the headlights
that these remarkable vehicles have. Whether it is the original Marchal or the
new hid lights that have become all the rage you can now find changes in the
on going status quo, it just requires getting there. Unfortunately the reality
is that the industry as a whole has been reluctant to expand universally to
one form over the other until there is something more concrete in place regard
the changes.

There have been many ideas
presented over the years, from the 1922 Citroen B2 Phaeton which featured a
unique auxiliary light that used a headlight spreader bar and a Restor
Monocode Optik light with a lens that was designed to enable it to have a
broader and farther reaching beam. This was something that was fairly standard
for French cars back in the 1920s, and the stock bulbs that came with them
would typically only have one setting that rested in its intensity somewhere
in between bright and dim.

Then there was the Marchal bulb,
which was built to be similar to the Optik, however it never was able to
achieve the same level of brightness. Over the years manufacturers tried to
create something that was more intense because of the fact that drivers are at
a more statistical chance of getting involved in a serious accident when
needing headlights. The trouble is they have never really been able to truly
do it, that is until hid lights.

Hid lights are bulbs that are
created using xenon gas and modeled after a special light crafted by Germany
in World War II. Movie theaters where looking for a way to increase the level
of projector light that they could use and the result was all of that and so
much more.

Hid lights are so bright that
they illuminate all of the road around you and can come in a variety of colors
now. This includes yellow,
blue and even purple. Much of this is determined by the temperature
that the bulb is being heated to. Hid lights have quickly become the wave of
the future and you are at long last starting to see manufacturers use these
incredible bulbs on some new cars. For those who have a preexisting car it is
also possible to purchase kits that feature hid lights that fit just about any
car you would like.